Moving on to the Brake overhaul process and already having fun with this….. Although it was not seized (yet), the grease at most of the slider pins was already dried out and no longer soft resulting in very heavy calliper movement. Some of the dust boots over the piston were not installed properly and causing excessive rust inside…. ...
Another one of the most common parts missing from your early model NSX. It’s the rubber protector located at the boot lid hinge. Without this, the forward section of your boot lid alignment would be lower than the side wing. On the later model, the design of the ‘hook’ was changed so that the rubber protector won’t be easily dislocated but on the earlier models, ...
What a dirty air filter…. Due to the camera’s flash, the photo doesn’t show you the true state of the filter but I couldn’t see through anything with this dirty one. Replaced with the new OEM one. I don’t like to see dirty engine so dressed the engine and engine bay as the final touch. ...
Time for the compression check. Kept the TH at WOT and disabled the INJ by disconnecting the connector to the INJ resistor unit. Later models have different INJ spec so there is no INJ resistor unit and just a simple connector with metal bar inside to create short circuit. In the process of compression check. ...
Before warming up the engine for the compression check, decided to clean the TH butterfly as it requires the engine to be cold. As in the previous post, the TH body was full of black gunk and also the idle rpm was not stable. Sprayed the TH cleaner several times and then fired up the engine to warm it up. While keeping the TH slightly opened, cleaned the ...
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